Senior Software Engineer (Cloud)

Straight Arrow

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About The Position

Straight Arrow is seeking a Senior Software Engineer who thrives at the intersection of Software, Platform, and Product. This is a high-trust, high-ownership role where you will be responsible for making hard technical decisions, clearing blockers, and elevating the team. You will impact the full SAN.com ecosystem, including AWS infrastructure, web and mobile codebases, AI initiatives, and internal tooling. The ideal candidate is energized by broad scope, enjoys R&D-style exploration as much as production engineering, and wants to make a real impact on a growing media company.

Requirements

• Meaningful experience working within AWS, including serverless architectures (Lambda), infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/OpenTofu), and cloud cost/reliability management.
• Experience working in mobile app or web development.
• Comfortable working across a stack and across teams.
• Strong engineering fundamentals, including writing clean, maintainable code.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical projects from ambiguous problem to shipped solution.
• Experience mentoring or leveling up other engineers.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Wordpress
• Experience with mobile application development in React Native / Expo.
• Experience with user / subscription management utilities (piano)
• Experience with vendor management, integrating with 3rd party utilities
• Exposure to vendor analysis
• Experience working in the media / journalism space

Responsibilities

• Own and manage Straight Arrow’s cloud footprint, including architecting, provisioning, and maintaining AWS & GCP cloud environments.
• Design and build full customer-facing solutions in the cloud, leveraging CI/CD and IaC technologies, with consideration for security, scalability, reliability, and observability.
• Lead AI agent development and implementation, from scoping and building to integrating them into products and workflows.
• Build internal platform products to save the engineering team time and accelerate the organization's ability to move from idea to working solution.
• Collaborate with Tech, Product, and Analytics leadership, translating business needs into engineering decisions and providing information for informed calls.
• Act as a force multiplier for the engineering team by identifying blockers, finding shared solutions, and helping the team work better together.
• Invest in the growth of other engineers through design discussions, code reviews, and mentorship.

Benefits

• Real ownership, from day one
• A mission that matters: building technology in service of better journalism
• A small team where your work is visible and your voice carries
• The chance to shape both the technical culture and the product roadmap
• A chance to own new greenfield products end to end that positively impact both the internal teams and the customer

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed